Thomas Oboe Lee
music department
Professor
B.A. University of Pittsburgh
M.M. New England Conservatory
Ph.D. Harvard University
Office: Lyons 427
Phone: 617-552-3297
Email: thomas.lee.2@bc.edu
Personal website: http://home.comcast.net/~thomas.o.lee/
Office Hours: 12:00 Noon, MWF
Links to You Tube videos featuring Thomas Oboe Lee's compositions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yvATizSz54&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU18GkvleDI
Links to Mp3 recordings of Thomas Oboe Lee's compositions:
http://www.amc.net/ThomasOboeLee
http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/audio_player/detachable_player/artist_236477?autoPlay=true
Performances for Spring 2011
January 21
World premiere performance of "De Profundis" (2010) for baritone and piano with John Whittlesey and James Busby at St. John the Evangelist Church, 35 Bowdoin Street in Beacon Hill, Boston, MA at 8:00 pm. Text by Oscar Wilde from his book of the same title. Also on the program: The Andrée Expedition (1983) by Domenico Argento.
February 17, 18 and 19
Tapage (tap dancers Mari Fujibayashi and Olivia Rosenkrantz) dance to "Morango ... almost a tango" (1983) with the Cuarteto Latinoamericano at Teatro de la Danza, Plaza Angel Sales - Centro Cultural de Bosque, Colonia Chapultepec Polanco, Mexico City. Also on the program music by Piazzolla, Revueltas, Sierra, etc.
March 28 at 7:30 pm
Premiere performance of "Vincent Millay Cycle" (2010) for soprano and piano with Mary Hubbell and Katya Mihailova at Elebash Recital Hall at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue in New York City, New York. Six poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
March 31 at 7:00 pm
"Three World Premieres" at Gargan Hall, Bapst Library at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Part the First ... THOU mastering me God! (2010) for soprano and piano with Megan Stapleton and Diane Braun. Text by Gerard Manley Hopkins from his epic poem "The Wreck of the Deutschland". String Quartet No. 12, The Seasons, after Franz Joseph Haydn (2010) with the QX String quartet. Repeat performance of "De Profundis" (2010) for baritone and piano with Tim Krol and Holly Chatham. Text by Oscar Wilde, excerpted from his book of the same title.
April 7 at 4:30 pm
Boston Premiere of "Vincent Millay Cycle"(2010) for soprano and piano with Mary Hubbell and Katya Mihailova at Gargan Hall, Bapst Library at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Six poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
April 19 at 8:00 pm
World premiere performane of "Concerto for Concert Band" (2011) with the Jordan Winds in Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Bill Drury, Music Director.
May 3
Sonja van Lier, Nancy Braithwaite and Vaughan Schlepp perform "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" (1991) at Muziek na de markt in het wite Kerkje in Baarn, the Netherlands. Also on the program, works by Franz Schubert, Clara Schumann and Abbie Betinis.
May 7 and 8
Performance of "The Flowers of Terezín" (2004) for SSA chorus and piano by the Battenkill Chorale in Ladd Hall at the Zankel Music Center at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Janet McGhee, music director.